‘No evidence’ links twisted double killer Christopher Halliwell to missing chef Claudia Lawrence – but cops are convinced he DID have other victims

Police chief slams 'speculation' but admits cops are convinced the taxi driver killed more than two women

By FELIX ALLEN

4th October 2016, 12:11 pm

Updated: 5th October 2016, 4:06 am

DOUBLE killer Christopher Halliwell probably did murder other victims - but there is no evidence linking him to a string of missing women, a police chief said today.

Wiltshire Chief Constable Mike Veale said he was "sure" other women may have been murdered by the Swindon taxi driver, but a national effort to try to tie Halliwell to further crimes had proved fruitless.

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Mr Veale said on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "I am absolutely sure, actually, that he probably has committed other offences, and I'm sure that there may well be other women that have been murdered, but, on the record, there is no evidence, no evidence whatsoever, to link him to any other murder in this country."

Halliwell, now 52, is serving life for murdering Becky Godden, 20, in January 2003 and Sian O'Callaghan, 22, in March 2011.

Former Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, who was forced to quit despite nailing the killer, has blasted the force for failing to investigate links to other possible victims.

Missing women feared to have been killed by the maniac include chef Claudia Lawrence, who vanished on her way to work in March 2009.

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Becky Godden, 20, who was murdered by taxi driver Halliwell in 2003

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He was also convicted of killing Sian O'Callaghan in 2011

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Halliwell has been linked to the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence, who went missing on March 19, 2009

Defending his force's handling of the case, Mr Veare accused the press of engaging in "pure speculation" as he said Wiltshire Police had worked closely with other forces regarding the killer.

He said: "Despite that information being shared with every other force across the country, there is no evidence, there are no links, that we can substantiate, and these claims within the press are absolutely pure speculation."

Cops are said to be investigating a number of other missing persons cases in the belief that Halliwell was a prolific serial killer.

One theory is he may have killed three women on the anniversary of the day hew split from a girlfriend.

He abducted and murdered his second known victim, clubber Sian, on March 19 2011.

Claudia vanished on the same day two years earlier.

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